# 1864 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* June - David Lloyd George's father dies and his family move from Pembrokeshire to Llanystumdwy to be cared for by his maternal uncle, Richard Lloyd, when he is aged 18 months.
* June 23 - Aberystwyth is linked to the rail network for the first time.
* October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.
* David Davies Llandinam takes a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits.
* Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head of the Croesor valley.
* The Llandudno Improvement Commissioners attempt to ban Punch and Judy shows. In this year, the town first receives the title "Queen of Welsh Resorts".

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by Richard Foulkes Edwards (Rhisiart Ddu o Wynedd).

### New books
#### English language

* R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan
* Sir John Henry Philipps - Lyrics
* Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection
* Frances Williams-Wynn - Diaries of a Lady of Quality (posthumously published)

#### Welsh language

* Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn
* Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau
* Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig

### Music

* William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata)

## Sport

* Cricket
** South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170.
* Football
** October 22 - The predecessor of Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest association football club in Wales and the world's sixth oldest football club.

## Births

* January 8
** Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
** Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)
* February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
* March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)
* May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913)
* June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915)
* July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (died 1927)
* August 19 - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
* September 15
** Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player (died 1929)
** Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
* September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player (died 1940)
* October 10
** Edward Bishop - Wales International rugby union player (died 1919)
** Arthur Gould - Wales International rugby union captain (died 1919)
* October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
* November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)

## Deaths

* March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74
* March 28 - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77
* June 18
** Evan Davies, missionary, 59
** William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60 (in Bangor)
* June 20 - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79
* July 24 - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59
* August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
* December 29 - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80